Donna Kritz-Silverstein, PhD

Dr. Kritz-Silverstein has a doctorate in social psychology with a minor in statistics from New York University and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD. Her areas of research include women’s health, heart disease risk factors, bone health, and cognitive function. For the past 23 years, she has been Co-Investigator and Principal Investigator on NIH funded Rancho Bernardo Study grants in addition to serving as Follow-up Coordinator for the study. Dr. Kritz-Silverstein has also served as Principal Investigator of the NIH funded Soy Health Effects (SHE) Study, and industry sponsored soy study (SOPHIA), Co-Investigator of an NIH funded randomized controlled clinical trial of DHEAS and a Department of Defense case-control study of breast cancer and bone mass. She has extensive experience (over 30 years) designing every type of study, data analysis, and writing manuscripts. Additionally, she has taught and mentored medical and doctoral students for the past 23 years, and pediatric dental residents for the past 5 years.